(July 2, 2022 at 2:33 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote:

(July 2, 2022 at 12:39 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: But don't you find it fascinating that no matter what the subject is (trans, vaccines, Jan 6, UFOs, race) IA somehow finds a way to explain to us that he and "people like him" are being persecuted?

I love how you just ignore my arguments and focus on that. If an MSNBC host said Johnny Depp could not have been abused because he had a bodyguard, people here don't want to put that on MSNBC and would rather just blame it on faux feminists, but when Tucker Carlson is spewing his garbage, absolutely no one, and for good reason, would give Fox News a pass for it. Lets get some consistency here.

And AWTY is my personal rape accuser. She is the only person, ever in my life, to accuse me of rape, so forgive me for wondering what she might do with her moderator powers. I realize the forum had to pick some women to be moderators and that it couldn't just be all men, but come on now... Affirmative action. Just my opinion though, so take it with a grain of salt.

Trying to bait me into a fight with you isn't going to work.

You are a useless piece of shit who isn't worth my time....break a rule and you will be dealt with accordingly. Unfortunately, being a complete and utter asshole isn't against the rules.

However you may want to read the rule on 'Calling Out' before you spew more of your shit directed at me.

(July 2, 2022 at 2:50 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(July 2, 2022 at 2:33 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: I love how you just ignore my arguments and focus on that. If an MSNBC host said Johnny Depp could not have been abused because he had a bodyguard, people here don't want to put that on MSNBC and would rather just blame it on faux feminists, but when Tucker Carlson is spewing his garbage, absolutely no one, and for good reason, would give Fox News a pass for it. Lets get some consistency here.

And AWTY is my personal rape accuser. She is the only person, ever in my life, to accuse me of rape, so forgive me for wondering what she might do with her moderator powers. I realize the forum had to pick some women to be moderators and that it couldn't just be all men, but come on now... Affirmative action. Just my opinion though, so take it with a grain of salt.

I’ll take your opinion with a metric fuck ton of salt. 60% of the active administrators (we don’t have any actual moderators at all) on this forum are women.

If there’s any ‘affirmative action’ happening here, it’s going the other way - Jackalope and I are the token males.

Boru

I did not know about the makeup of the staff, so thanks for informing me about that. I just rarely see any women posting. Less than a handful it seems.

So you're cool with moderators making false rape allegations against members? I see. Disappointing, but at least you have now said that I won't be banned for having an opinion, so I appreciate that at least. Thank you.

As administrator, can you confirm that I did not break any rules in my last post, and will you ensure that AWTY will be stopped from banning me for stating that opinion, if she tries to do so? Because I'm pretty sure if you don't give me that guarantee and step in, there's a good chance I get banned for that post, because I already took her "keep my name out of your mouth" as a threat. I am happy to stop mentioning the false accusations of SA here out of respect for your forum and the sake of the thread, because I respect both and only want to contribute in a positive manner, and if defending myself from false accusations of sexual assault on minors is frowned upon, then I don't know what upside down bizarro world I'm living in, but so be it. Hopefully the thread gets back on topic, so we're on the same page in wanting that, and I promise you Boru, I'm not trying to make your life hard. Sorry for bringing any of this up in the first place, but because of the ever changing forum rules, I legitimately was not sure whether we were allowed to down talk Amber Heard. I'm glad sanity prevailed in this case.

I wasn't even in on this 'discussion' when you decided to drag me into it.

We don't have moderators, we have admins who all have equal ability to deal with forum issues. All admins can also undo any action taken. Boru is not my boss any more that I am his or Jackalopes's or Valk's or LFC's.

Now you feel threatened...what a damn joke.

(July 2, 2022 at 3:23 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I wasn't even in on this 'discussion' when you decided to drag me into it.

We don't have moderators, we have admins who all have equal ability to deal with forum issues.  All admins can also undo any action taken.  Boru is not my boss any more that I am his or Jackalopes's or Valk's or LFC's.

Now you feel threatened...what a damn joke.

As I said the eternal victim 

It's sad 

I'll add this.

This is a thread on 'Noteworthy News'. Take it back to that. I'll no longer take part in this derailing. Go back to crying for Amber Heard.

If you have an issue with staff then go to Questions, Problems, Suggestions, and Feedback and post your issue.

(July 2, 2022 at 3:09 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote:

(July 2, 2022 at 2:50 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I’ll take your opinion with a metric fuck ton of salt. 60% of the active administrators (we don’t have any actual moderators at all) on this forum are women.

If there’s any ‘affirmative action’ happening here, it’s going the other way - Jackalope and I are the token males.

Boru

I did not know about the makeup of the staff, so thanks for informing me about that. I just rarely see any women posting. Less than a handful it seems.

So you're cool with moderators making false rape allegations against members? I see. Disappointing, but at least you have now said that I won't be banned for having an opinion, so I appreciate that at least. Thank you.

As administrator, can you confirm that I did not break any rules in my last post, and will you ensure that AWTY will be stopped from banning me for stating that opinion, if she tries to do so? Because I'm pretty sure if you don't give me that guarantee and step in, there's a good chance I get banned for that post, because I already took her "keep my name out of your mouth" as a threat. I am happy to stop mentioning the false accusations of SA here out of respect for your forum and the sake of the thread, because I respect both and only want to contribute in a positive manner, and if defending myself from false accusations of sexual assault on minors is frowned upon, then I don't know what upside down bizarro world I'm living in, but so be it. Hopefully the thread gets back on topic, so we're on the same page in wanting that, and I promise you Boru, I'm not trying to make your life hard. Sorry for bringing any of this up in the first place, but because of the ever changing forum rules, I legitimately was not sure whether we were allowed to down talk Amber Heard. I'm glad sanity prevailed in this case.

1. The board only HAS a handful of active members, so it shouldn’t be noteworthy that only ‘a handful’ of women post.

2. I withhold judgement on the rape allegations against you. I don’t recall being part of that conversation.

3. You’ve been posting here for almost two years and have never been banned or threatened with a ban for expressing an opinion. I find it surprising that you needed me to tell you.

4. I can confirm that you didn’t break any rules in your last post (you’d know if you had).

5. You seem to think I have some sort of control over awty. I can assure you that I do not. If you are ever banned, it will be after a discussion and vote by the Forum staff - no one gets banned unilaterally.

6. You will ONLY ever be warned or banned for breaking the Forum rules, nothing else.

7. You couldn’t make my life hard if you tried.

8. Our rules are hardly ‘ever changing’. Over the few years that I’ve been on Staff, I can only recall about four additions/deletions regarding the rules. These are always announced in a PSA.

9. Try to be less of a putz.


Boru

Females taking part in online political discussions are unicorns for the most part. There may not be many active posters either way, but I'd bet the number of people who sign up are over 80 percent men. The viewership on political channels on youtube and most podcasts usually sways about 90 percent male. No matter the number of female or male admins, my position remains that this person being female heavily influenced them getting the position. Females in forums like this are "special". Kind of like male ballet dancers. Being male is going to help hugely if you're a ballet dancer, because there are so few of you. I'm not being sexist here either. I've seen some pretty brilliant posts from women on here, so lets not turn this into a me being sexist thing.

I agree with most of your post, Boru, but I certainly was banned for stating an opinion.

Quote:You're still going on about your rape apology claims? Why am I bringing up sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests if I am such a big fan of rape? The evidence overwhelmingly showed that Kobe Bryant was not guilty, and in the absence of evidence, you shouldn't be locking up black men who are overwhelmingly likely to be innocent. There are already far too many of them locked up. By the way, in this post I'm not putting down the accuser at all, so don't ban me again. The accuser is lovely and beautiful and brave.

I was banned 30 days for this post, in which I absolutely did not apologize for any rape. What rape are we talking about first of all? We don't know that any rape happened. Nowhere in that post did I say Kobe should not have been held accountable if the evidence showed he did it. I merely stated I believed he was not guilty, which, hopefully now, you can see is why I was confused about whether or not I was allowed to talk about Amber Heard, because it's the EXACT situation I was banned for. Questioning a victims' story. And for the record, the Kobe Bryant situation that I was banned for talking about is actually far worse of an accusation than the Johnny Depp one, because Kobe could have actually gone to jail for years, while Amber's goal wasn't to have a criminal trial or put Johnny behind bars.

It's not my fault your rules are extremely iffy and grey and hard to understand. Are we allowed to criticize accusers and say we disbelieve them, or are we not? Is your rape apology rule supposed to apply only to victims who we can confirm were raped, or does it apply to all accusers regardless of evidence? If the rule doesn't protect Amber Heard from being criticized, why was I banned for simply saying I don't believe someone? A sarcastic comment about someone being lovely and brave is ban worthy to you? Will I get banned right now if I call Amber Heard brave and lovely? No? Hmmm. Oh well. I've made my point, and your rules are murky as hell and need better defining.

Anyways, I appreciate that you are not backing AWTY by default on her false accusations against me, and you earn respect for that. As you can see, since my posts in the last few pages, she has already threatened me again 3 times with disciplinary action if I carry on with my current conduct, but isn't that funny, because she literally insults me, breaking the forum rules herself over and over, by calling me a twit or a moron every time she responds to me with no provocation from me in advance. I understand though. Rules for thee. Not for me. I would never expect an administrator to be held to account for their forum breaking rules by another administrator, and I'm just happy that AWTY stopped making those SA accusations after she got embarrassed to find out that no one else was going along with her ploy to discredit people she disagrees with politically.

You're real cute, and fucked up, too. I think that you should go into the permanent dunk tank for being fucked up, alone. Not my call though, troll. I guess you've seen the shit that was taken from drich and took it to heart.

 

Another word wall of endlessly whining by IA. Get over yourself already.